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Summer soundtrack: Charli XCX and the return of The Strokes

On today's Arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim brings us a roundup of upcoming album releases to add to your summer playlists. From the return of indie sleaze icons The Strokes, who are set to release their first album in six years, "Reality Awaits", to a British pop star hoping…

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"He wrote stories so painfully real that rock’n’roll still bears their scars." From Velvet Underground to his often divisive solo work, here's why Lou Reed is rock’s greatest storyteller

"With 1989’s New York album, Reed sealed his position as NYC’s poet laureate with a concept work of rare lyrical brilliance."

Louder

“I know that there’s been a lot of conversation around me making a rock album, which is something that I never said”: Charli XCX reflects on the reaction to her 'dancefloor is dead' lyric, and says she's not about to release a rock record

“I don’t even know what the genre is. It’s just me and A G Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing"

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‘Spirit would never’: Frontier flight from Puerto Rico to Chicago takes off. Then a passenger tries to jump out the emergency exit mid-flight

Most in-flight emergencies have to do with weather, mechanical issues, or maybe someone with a dire medical need. However, this one involved something you might not even believe, and it’s damn near a scene out of a movie. What these women experienced on a flight back from a bachelorette might…

The Mary Sue

Charli XCX announces new album featuring John Cale, Marc Jacobs and Martin Scorsese on the cover

A new Charli XCX album, ‘Music, Fashion, Film’, is coming next month, and in keeping with the album title, the cover features three heavyweights from the world of music, fashion and film...

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Charli xcx Announces New Album Music, Fashion, Film Feat. Three Icons On The Cover

Here's everything we know about pop superstar Charli xcx's much-anticipated eighth studio album, Music, Fashion, Film.

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Charli XCX announces new album and collaboration with unexpected trio

Charli XCX has announced her seventh studio album, titled Music, Fashion, Film , is scheduled for release on 24 July. The upcoming record will feature 11 songs, with a total runtime of 30 minutes and 5 seconds, and is now available for pre-order. The album's cover art, shared by the…

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Charli XCX announces seventh studio album Music, Fashion, Film

The chart topper said the upcoming 11-track record will be released on July 24.

Evening Standard

Arizona woman’s date starts off great—and ends up with her date in handcuffs and her Googling how to reverse a G-Wagon: ‘Why would you bail him out?’

An Arizona woman thought she was in for a night of being wined and dined. Instead, her seemingly perfect date ended at a police station, where she found herself trying to bail him out.

The Mary Sue

Bride does her nails at 2:30pm on her wedding day. Now ‘Type B’ brides are speaking out: ‘I doordashed my veil from Spirit Halloween an hour before’

There are two kinds of brides: the ones with a color-coded, minute-by-minute timeline… and the ones casually applying press-on nails mid-afternoon on their actual wedding day.

The Mary Sue

“Paul McCartney likes to control things under the guise of saying, ‘Play as free as you like.’ Then he’ll start to pick it all apart”: Chris Spedding’s favorite sessions

From handling Jack Bruce’s temper, to Brian Eno’s budget studio and Macca’s post-Beatles era, the UK session veteran picks his most treasured moments

Guitar World

Boston woman looks up man online after kissing him at the bar the night before. Then she finds his wedding website: ‘You have to tell her’

A Boston woman meets a guy on a night out and they share a kiss. When she Googles him the next morning, she sees a link to his wedding website. Viewers debate whether she should tell his fiancée.

The Mary Sue

“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”: Why this cult classic was hailed as one of the most influential albums of all time

“A savage series of atonal thrusts and electronic feedback”

MusicRadar

HVAC tech addresses her pregnancy. Then she discovers her fiancé’s clever ploy: ‘I’ve been sitting here smoking…the entire time’

A couple calls an HVAC technician fix their heater before a winter storm. The man creates a clever fib to get it fixed faster but doesn’t tell his fiancée, creating an awkward situation when the worker asks her if she’s having a “boy or a girl.”

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The Independent UK

Music Review: A post-'Brat' Charli xcx broods on the 'Wuthering Heights' soundtrack

Charli xcx's first release post-"Brat” summer is a brooding soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” and it aims to stand on its own

The Guardian - UK

Charli xcx: Wuthering Heights review – atonal, amorous anthems that more than stand apart from the film

Casting off her Bratty cigarettes and sunglasses, the pop visionary channels the torments of Heathcliff and Cathy and the tumult of the Velvet Underground on her latest captivating pivot

The Independent UK

Charli xcx review, Wuthering Heights – A spectacular, phantasmagorical fever dream

5/5 On her wild, gothic soundtrack album, the pop star proves herself much more in tune with the terrible complexity of Emily Brontë’s original vision than film director Emerald Fennell

The Independent UK

What to Stream: Charli xcx, Chalamet in 'Marty Supreme,' Ethan Hawke, 'Cross' and Mario Tennis Fever

Timothée Chalamet starring as a table tennis wizard in “Marty Supreme” and Charli xcx’s soundtrack to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” are some of the new television, films, music and video games headed to a device near you

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Louder

“The email said, ‘John Cale is looking for you.’ It absolutely terrified me. I thought I was in trouble!” How the Velvet Underground icon voiced a powerful song on Cate Le Bon’s new album

Michelangelo Dying, which she says is more of an exorcism than an album, was nearly released without Cale performing on the track Ride, because she was too afraid to ask him

We Got This Covered

Woman gets carsick in Uber ride, but her real nightmare begins when her driver starts to ‘freshen’ the air

That's low-key biological warfare.

Louder

"They took a record that I'd made and erased all my songs, all my vocals. I thought, 'I won’t let you get away with this'": From goth glory to bad blood - the Gene Loves Jezebel story

Reflecting on both success and rancour, identical twins Michael and Jay Aston look back on their time in the band – and at each other’s throats

We Got This Covered

‘This is not real’: Passenger films what older woman does to her during Emirates flight and viewers are baffled

Being nice cost her the entire flight.

The Guardian - UK

Lily Allen’s live return, Charli xcx’s Wuthering Heights and Simon Rattle’s Janáček: music to listen out for in 2026

Raye, Deftones and Yungblud do UK tours, Jill Scott returns for more neo-soul, and classical world gears up to celebrate György Kurtág at 100

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Charli xcx releases haunting new Wuthering Heights ballad Chains of Love

Charli xcx has shared the second track from the Wuthering Heights soundtrack.

The Guardian - UK

Charli xcx: House ft John Cale review – haunt me, then! An elegant, brutal taste of the Wuthering Heights OST

Featuring a lugubrious monologue from the Velvet Underground legend, its jagged strings are more reminiscent of that band than anything on Brat

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